If you are solo-practitioner you should consider self-directed Solo 401k, most likely it would cost you less than SD IRA but will give you more benefits, flexibility and control.

Then he had to go to a nursing home about 6 years later, the state forced sale and I showed up at closing to release the lien, got all my money. 

Age of the owner is mid 50s so should I try to look for them in nursing homes?

The goal is to get leases in the 3-9 month range.Lots of industries have a need for corporate housing weather its the employees choice (like traveling nurses or high paid contract workers that work 3-4 days in the city) or by company assignment (like an engineer brought in on a big construction project)Furnished corporate housing can rent for 2-4x what a comparable unfurnished unit on a traditional 1 yr lease will bring.Just a thought, it could make a property cashflow that otherwise would not have.

My background has primarily been on the contractor side, I'm a master plumber in three states now, and my wife Meredith is a nurse.

Yes, we rent to professionals like traveling nurses, interns, and business folks @Arlen Chou,Some sh*t don't change!

Nurses and other high risk/high pay jobs already have enough stress at work, they don't need the additional stress of a rental.

Columbus has been attracting a ton of large businesses and has Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Wexner Medical Center for traveling nurses.

.; traveling nurses, doctoral students, etc.), and your DP is minimal...then yeah--200-300 cashflow might be OK (but, you'll need to run your CoC numbers to know for sure).But if the property is C or D class, in a C or D neighborhood, and the tenants will cause you endless headaches, and the property requires rehab and/or has looming capex, etc....then, no, $200-300 may not be worth the hassle.There are properties that I know would cashflow THOUSANDS per month, but I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole because I know that the headaches the property and tenants would produce just aren't worth the money...Also, you mentioned that you think higher rents and appreciation are in the future for this neighborhood...if your plan DEPENDS on higher rents/appreciation in the future, you're not investing, you're speculating.

@Paige Seeley If you're a travel nurse you're already connected with people that own assets you want to buy.